1997 Dakota Territory/Spearfish Normal Award Recipient: Raymond Adel

Dakota Territory/Spearfish Normal Award, Raymond Adel, ‘43
Adel enrolled at Spearfish Norma in 1939 and today is a retired Appellate Court Judge of Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals for the State of Minnesota. Prior to his duties in court, Adel was the assistant commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, Compensation Counsel and Attorney for the Minnesota Workmen’s Commission and worked in the claim department for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. He also served in the Army Air Force after attending Spearfish Normal/Black Hills Teachers College.